Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 20
Tidings of these things came to the Duke Benes, and he sent to his brethren, Gerard and Bron, that they should come to his help.
Who acts: Tidings, desire · What happens: come, send, help · To what, where: Duke Benes, brethren, help
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tidings, desire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 things | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 things | det |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Tidings | nmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Benes | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Benes | det |
| 8 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Benes | compound |
| 9 | Benes | Benes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sent | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sent | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sent | nsubj |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 brethren | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Gerard | punct |
| 18 | Gerard | Gerard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 brethren | appos |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Bron | cc |
| 20 | Bron | Bron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Gerard | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 come | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 come | nsubj |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sent | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 help | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 help | nmod:poss |
| 28 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 come | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Tidings of this things | the Duke Benes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to benes=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | send | past | desire | desire's brethren | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to brethren=Destination | ||||
| 3 | come | should | Tidings = tiding | desire's help | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to help=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | help | desire | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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